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REPL snippet
using System;
using Microsoft.ClearScript.V8;
namespace v8repl
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
/* create instance of V8 */
V8ScriptEngine v8 = new V8ScriptEngine();
/* assign System.Console to Javascript variable myConsole */
v8.AddHostType("myConsole", typeof(Console));
/* */
bool kill = false;
/* keep doing the following while kill = false */
while(!kill)
{
/* get input string from process stdin */
string input = Console.ReadLine();
/* using a string literal for simplicity sake */
if(input == "exit")
{
Environment.Exit(0); /* exit code 0 means no error */
}
/* safely evaluate input in a try/catch block */
try
{
v8.Evaluate(input); /* run the code */
} catch (Exception e)
{
/* something went wrong, show us the exception */
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
}
}
}
}
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